I guess this is Eric Laithwaite's linear motor again. Wonderful, isn't it? Japan gets trains going at 361MPH, whilst the UK - the birthplace of the inventor of the technology - gets trains going at 125MPH (barring snow, leaves, sun, clockwork running down, etc.)
VM's a wonderful system and it's great to hear that it's still alive (I supported several VM installations for 10 years.)
When you build a new CP nucleus, does it still say: "SYSTEM LOAD DECK COMPLETE" as it finishes? Ah, the nostalgia!
About six years ago, I installed one of the first P/390 systems in the UK (took 8 months, largely because of the newness of the hardware) and managed it for a couple of years. It was essentially a big PS/2 running OS/2: the S/390 environment and devices (including 3390 DASD) were emulated within OS/2, and VM was installed and run within this (and then OS/390 was installed as a guest system under VM!)
And - it all worked superbly. Even OS/390.
I've not tried it under Linux (I'd love to, but VM's a bit expensive...) I imagine the general challenges are very similar.
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I guess this is Eric Laithwaite's linear motor again. Wonderful, isn't it? Japan gets trains going at 361MPH, whilst the UK - the birthplace of the inventor of the technology - gets trains going at 125MPH (barring snow, leaves, sun, clockwork running down, etc.)
VM's a wonderful system and it's great to hear that it's still alive (I supported several VM installations for 10 years.) When you build a new CP nucleus, does it still say: "SYSTEM LOAD DECK COMPLETE" as it finishes? Ah, the nostalgia!
About six years ago, I installed one of the first P/390 systems in the UK (took 8 months, largely because of the newness of the hardware) and managed it for a couple of years. It was essentially a big PS/2 running OS/2: the S/390 environment and devices (including 3390 DASD) were emulated within OS/2, and VM was installed and run within this (and then OS/390 was installed as a guest system under VM!) And - it all worked superbly. Even OS/390. I've not tried it under Linux (I'd love to, but VM's a bit expensive ...) I imagine the general challenges are very similar.